Of blood, bedewed me with these crimson drops."

Æschylus.

The tradition of the meeting of Iphigenia with her father in the lower regions, after his death, when the latter was ignorant of the

infamy of her mother, and the cause of her father's death, is thus beautifully described:—

"Iphigenia. Father! I now may lean upon your breast,

And you with unreverted eyes will grasp

Iphigenia's hand.

We are not shades

Surely! for yours throbs yet,

And did my blood